2024-09-02 11:16:09
In her works, Daniela Hodrova is repeatedly inspired by the mysterious corners and places of her birthplace, Prague. Now the test writer is dead.
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Czech writer and novelist Daniela Hodrova died on Friday evening at the age of 78, her publisher announced. His last novel has just been published in Czech with the translation title “What’s Next or Journey to the Magic Mountain”.
Hodrova was awarded the international Franz Kafka Literature Prize in 2012. During his career he also received the Czech State Prize for Literature and the Magnesia Litera Prize. Czech Minister of Culture Martin Baxa paid tribute to the deceased’s friends to the book at Platform X.
In her postmodern works, Hodrova plays with the transition between reality and illusion. This is a topic that he also discusses in his scientific writings.
His novel “Città dolente” was published in Germany in 1994, in which the reader wanders through the mysterious Prague as if through a labyrinth. Later followed “I saw the city…”, a foray from Rabbi Löw and Golem to Emperor Rudolf II to Vaclav Havel and the Velvet Revolution, the democratic revolution of 1989.
Hodrova was born on July 5, 1946 in Prague. He studied Russian, Bohemian, Romance and Comparative Literature at Charles University in his hometown. After a short period as a publishing editor, he worked for several years at the then Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences.
(dpa)
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